Cool Girls Create Podcast With Taniesha "Tee" Westbrook

About Cool Girls Create Podcast With Taniesha "Tee" Westbrook

Cool Girls Create with Taniesha Westbrook is where creativity, career, community, and real life meet. Each episode features conversations with creators, entrepreneurs, professionals, artists, and community builders about what they’re creating, how they got there, and what they’re figuring out along the way. Some conversations happen over coffee. Others happen on a walk, at a restaurant, during a creative experience, around the city, or virtually with women beyond Nashville. The setting may change, but the heart of the show stays the same: honest conversations about building ideas, careers, b

Publisher

Taniesha Westbrook

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Jul 2020

Latest episode

8 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

32 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Jul 2026

   You Cannot Build a Real Business in Hustle Mode

   In this episode of The Taniesha Westbrook Show, I’m joined by my husband and co-founder, Greg Westbrook, for a real conversation about what it has actually taken to build Shop Black Fest behind the scenes. People see the events, the crowds, the vendors, the community support, and the growth, but they do not always see the parts that almost broke us. We talk about starting with an idea, building as a husband-and-wife team, learning how to work together, and figuring out what it really means to move from hustle mode into building a sustainable business. We also talk about our early experiences in entrepreneurship, corporate America, and what made us want to build something centered around Black business and Black culture. Greg shares his perspective as a Black man founder, and I share more about what it felt like trying to build something while also navigating being Black in corporate spaces. This episode also gets into the business lessons we had to learn the hard way. We talk about scaling too fast, trying to go from a few cities to way too many, canceling events, dealing with customers, managing cash flow gaps, restructuring the business, and realizing that making money does not mean the business is actually built to last. A big part of this conversation is also about roles. When you build with someone else, especially your spouse, you have to figure out who does what, what each person is actually good at, and where the business needs help. We talk about the difference between doing the things you like to do and doing the things the business actually needs. Toward the end, we get into a deeper conversation about Black business support. Should we be trying to help every business owner, or should we be investing more energy into the entrepreneurs who are ready to grow? We talk about hustle mode, growth-minded entrepreneurs, capacity, and why support without responsibility does not always help people build better businesses. This episode is for founders, couples in business, Black entrepreneurs, community builders, and anyone who is trying to build something that is bigger than just making quick money. Drop your thoughts in the comments. Do you think Black business support should be for everybody, or should we focus more on the businesses that are ready to grow?

2. 

   1 Jul 2026

   Your Business Cannot Outgrow Your Money Habits

   In this episode, I’m joined by my sister, Stephanie Johnson, a financial strategist and wealth educator who helps entrepreneurs leverage credit, structure their businesses, and build access to wealth. We talk about why money is such a taboo topic in the Black community, especially for entrepreneurs, and why so many business owners feel uncomfortable being honest about revenue, profit, expenses, and what they actually pay themselves. We also share our own story as sisters and entrepreneurs. Before Shop Black Fest, before the businesses we have now, we started a vintage fashion brand together while we were at Tennessee State University. That eventually led to us opening BTS Studios in East Nashville, where we had a full creative studio, commercial rent, big ideas, and very little understanding of how to actually manage the money side of the business. This conversation gets into the financial foundation every entrepreneur needs. We talk about separating personal and business finances, creating a real budget, tracking your money, understanding what your business actually needs, and asking whether the things you are spending money on are going to make money back. Stephanie also shares why credit can be such a powerful tool for entrepreneurs and why learning how to leverage personal and business credit can help you stop paying for everything out of pocket. This episode is for entrepreneurs who are making money but still feel like they are struggling. It is a real conversation about financial literacy, business credit, budgeting, money habits, and telling the truth about where your business really stands. Listen in and ask yourself this: is your business actually growing, or is the money still all over the place?

3. 

   24 Jun 2026

   What Pinky Cole’s Bankruptcy Reveals About the Dark Side of Fast Growth

   In this episode, I’m talking about Pinky Cole, the founder of Slutty Vegan, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and what her story reveals about fast growth, public success, and the pressure Black founders face when their businesses become cultural symbols. This conversation is not about judging her. It is about the bigger reality that many Black business owners deal with when the business grows faster than the systems, team, finances, and operations can handle. I break down the difference between Chapter 7, Chapter 11, and Chapter 13 bankruptcy, why Chapter 11 does not automatically mean a business is shutting down, and how restructuring can sometimes be part of the business journey. I also talk about the pressure to perform success online while dealing with debt, taxes, burnout, hiring, operations, and the real growing pains that people do not always see from the outside. This episode is about Pinky Cole, Slutty Vegan, Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Black-owned businesses, fast growth, and the hidden cost of building something that looks successful to everybody else. Listen in and tell me what you think. Is bankruptcy always a failure, or can it be a tool for rebuilding?

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

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